Nagisa's Storytime, Chapter 3
On Thursday, I and the other, a little less-awesome members of the student council, arranged a massive festival on the grounds of Iwatobi. Don't ask me where the hell we got the money for all the activities; like the merry-go-round, the food stands, and the other little shops and stuff. Before the festival began, the president wanted to hold a speech. And I don't mean like, the real president (although we did try to invite him), but Lelouch.
"Loyal subjects… I mean fellow students! I, Lelouch, the president of the student council, welcome you to our welcoming festival!" He said, pausing for a moment. Really pres? Welcome to welcoming ceremony? Someone wasn't putting in enough effort.
Oh well. If he sounded stupid, I would look smarter in comparison!
Getting sidetracked again. So he continued with his all-too-formal voice; "I know it will be challenging for all of us to adapt to this sudden change of events, but I am certain we can all work together and pull through. Now, all hail Lelo- I mean, enjoy the festivities!" He said, and then everyone cheered and the people dispersed to do whatever they wanted to do.
Now, just because I'm part of the student council, doesn't mean I don't get to have fun. The opposite, really, because the student council members got penguin outfits! I guess it was to promote the school and just give people something to talk about. I love penguins, by the way. Wait, you already know that from the wiki, don't you…
But yeah, I got to wear this penguin costume. I ran around the place, and sneaked up on the gang.
"Boo!" I yelled, in a really, really super spooky voice. Everyone just turned to look at me, like they weren't surprised at all! But I'm sure they were just acting tough, I would probably get traumatized for life if I saw a ghost penguin.
"Nagisa, why are you dressed like that?" Rei asked, probably embarrassed about having me as company. What was embarrassing about walking around with me, especially if I'm in a cool costume? I just don't get that guy sometimes.
Anyway, I was pumped! I was with the gang, had a penguin costume and I was still kind of riding the high of being accepted into the student council. But of course, everything could never be perfect.
"Where are Nitori and Rin-chan?" I thought out loud, and the others just sighed, knowingly. I hated that! If I haven't made myself clear yet, I'm the main main character of this story, and naturally I have to be in the center of all the drama!
"They've been up to something, I believe something involving a club." Haru answered shortly. "That's too vague! What club? I wanna go find out!" I demanded, and "I" obviously meant all of us were going now.
The old clubs, except the swimming club, had been cancelled due to the lack of players. But the swimming club, completely made of actual characters, had only grown in size. You see, obviously the people from Samezuka had to join.
But, isn't two clubs just a bit much for Nitori and Rin? I don't know about you, but the swim club takes so much of my time. It's almost like my life is entirely centered on it! Wait…
But moving on. The newly formed clubs were looking for members, and I was pretty sure that every club was there, excluding ours since we already had a shit ton of posters around the school.
So we had a look at the clubs, looking for Rin and Nitori. We went past the "Magic Club", the "Fudanshi & Fujoshi Alliance Club" (I think I saw Hiyori there, but could've just been someone else), the "Gourmet Club", the "Literature Club" (which Ren had already joined, good luck balancing swimming, books and me…), the "Hero Club" and a bunch of others.
But no matter how long we walked, I never saw Rin and Nitori. Frustrating, I'll tell you that. We walked past every stand, until we got to the very end of the long row. Once we got there, I had to look around to make sure we were still at Iwatobi, since it looked like a little girl's dream.
It was an outdoor café or something, and pretty damn classy for one. Firstly, the tables had pastel pink tablecloths and there were cushions on the chairs. The tableware also looked insanely expensive, and best of all, the workers had these really good-looking outfits on, like black-and-white suits. I was going to ask them were they got them so I could get Rei one, but they got the first line.
"Welcome, guests, to the Iwatobi High School Host Club!"
The guy who'd come to greet us was glasses guy, Kyo- something. By then, I was getting kinda creeped out by him. How was he always involved in everything?
"Uh… what in the world is this place?" Makoto asked what we were all thinking. Well, he used "what in the world" instead of something real because he's Makoto, and too pure. "This is a club, where boys with too much time on their hands, entertain female customers with also too much time on their hands. Well, the gender dynamics are kind of flexible these days, but you'll get the point once you join us for coffee, right?"
Apparently someone agreed to the invitation as I was busy thinking how any actual high schooler could have too much time on their hands… But hey, who gives a shit about realism?
We sat down, at this round table. We got a few looks, since this apparently was more of a girl's café. Okay and maybe because I still had the penguin costume… Nobody said anything about it though, instead this boy with white hair and kinda cool eyepatch came to serve us coffee. Some really fucking good coffee, I'll add.
But I wasn't really getting the "host club" part. I mean, it was a nice café and all, good coffee, but where were the hosts? It was like a chocolate doughnut without chocolate!
"Greetings, visitors!" Someone suddenly said, behind me. I tried to turn my head to look at this guy, but the suit wasn't having it. So instead, I flipped myself the other way on the chair, miraculously not dragging the tablecloth and everything on it to the ground with me.
Only, the blonde wasn't alone.
"I'm Tamaki, one of the original, founding members of our club back at Ouran. It's a pleasure to see you here, and I'm glad that you have become interested about our humble club. Oh, and these two are-"
"We know." We all said in perfect unison, a task only possible in anime, giggling at Nitori and Rin. They were wearing maid uniforms, unlike the others, for whatever reason. It was ridiculous! Rin's face almost matched with his hair color, and Nitori seemed really red too.
"You never told me you were going to join this club!" I said, half-accusingly, walking around them to get a better look. It's not every day you get to see your friends dressed as maids! Wait… that does happen reasonably often in anime, though… I mean, you probably have a picture saved from that time Momo and Nitori worked in the maid café in that OVA, right? I know you people…
But there was no time to think of that! I took my phone out and snapped a picture of them, before they could react. "HEY! You delete that picture, or I'll-" Rin roared, but was cut off by Tamaki. "Now now, please be polite towards our guests." He said, skillfully offering us some fancy pastries. I ate like seven, because food, and because it was kind of hard to take any less with penguin fins for hands.
"Um, we aren't here because we chose so. You see, we came to visit this place a few days ago, and we managed to destroy a vase." Rin interjected. "What do you mean, we?" Nitori turned to challenge him. "You bumped into me! Well, luckily it was just a cheap one, but since we're students and broke… We had to come to an arrangement to pay off our debt." Nitori explained. "We'll be working for the club for a few days."
I was kind of wondering why they were at the host club in the first place when they broke the vase, but I noticed something way, way more interesting in the midst of that. You see, Momo had this look on this face. He looked like he was thinking hard, which was pretty concerning since he's a total airhead. I was counting down seconds till he'd suddenly come up with something dumb. 3…2…1… Wait for it…
"I want to join this club, as a host!"
Yep, told you so.
I'm sorry these are so short, but I'm gonna try my very best to post every 2-3 days and thus, these can't be too long or I'll run out of dry jokes and inspiration!